You'll soon hear 8 new voices in Amazon Alexa skills

If you have an idea for using Amazon Polly voices in your skill, tell us about it via this survey. Obvious use cases would be adding multiple "characters" to Skill-based games and experiences.

On Wednesday, Amazon unveiled a preview allowing developers to use eight Amazon Polly US English voices for their Alexa skills for free, to make the skills more engaging.

Some developers may have added different voices to their Alexa skills via.mp3 files or some other technique, but Amazon says using Polly is simple - a developer can choose a voice using the Structured Speech Markup Language (SSML) and specifying the voice using the "voice name" tag.